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.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.