Le Bonheur! Sa dent, douce à la mort, m'avertissait au chant du coq, — ad matutinum, au Christus venit, — dans les plus sombres villes.

"The writer's job is to make the ordinary extraordinary."

你写作不是因为你想要说些什么；你写作是因为你有话要说。

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I'm a work in progress.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."