The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

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.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

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

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

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.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

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

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.