Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.