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.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.