Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.