Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.