There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Silence too can be indiscreet.