Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.