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

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

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

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

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.

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.

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