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

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

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.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

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

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.