The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.