If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.
I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.