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

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

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 scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

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

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.

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