Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.