One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.