There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

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

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.