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.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

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.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

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

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.