Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.
You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
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.