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 scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

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

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

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

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

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