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 secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

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

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.