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 am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

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

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

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.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.