I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.