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.

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

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

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

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

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