Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.