I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.