Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Style is to forget all styles.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none