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

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

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.

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.

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 dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

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