What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

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

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.