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.

What is real is beyond all reach.

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

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

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.