Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.