This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.

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

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

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.

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.

We know well only what we are deprived of.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.