Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.