Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

People who can write a book usually do.

You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.