The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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