Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.