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

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

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.

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

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

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

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.