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.

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

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

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.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

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.

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