If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.