Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!