The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.