Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.