“Savez-vous que c'est cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rechercher d'un bonheur malgr tout, que naissent les manies et, souvent, les dsquilibres.”

“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersI would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their a...”

“At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before they spread out into black spots. At the same time thunder rumbled from the direction of Charenton ...”

“The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic th...”

“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.”

“Prsente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forts votre image me suit”

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”

“The only French word I know is oui, which means yes, and only recently did I learn its spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.”

“Never Give up, never surrender.”

“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker paj...”

“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”