We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.