All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.