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

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

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

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.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

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