All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.