My novels are all ideas.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.