I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Creativity finds its own creator.
Only a self-learnt man can teach others
Only a self-learnt man can reach others.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Man lives in a world of meaning.
There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.
It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.
Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide ... C'est les grands qui font la guerre.
Things explain each other, not themselves.
I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Reading brings us unknown friends.
