The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.