Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.