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

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

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.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.