I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.