Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !