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.

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.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

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

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.