I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.