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

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

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

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

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