The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.