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.

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.

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

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

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.