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 scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

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.

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

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

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

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.