The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

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

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.