On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me