The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.