What is real is beyond all reach.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one’s whole life is not always long enough to get there.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn’t tempt me.

A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.