It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

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