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.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

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.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

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

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

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.