[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

I have a slight oral fixation.

The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

I face my future peacefully and calmly because I know I am enough

If you don't go, you'll never know.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.