He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.