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.

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.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

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

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

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

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.