... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.