One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.