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

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

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.

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

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

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