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

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

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

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.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

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.