There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.