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

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.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

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

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.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.