Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.