It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.