“Écrire est un acte religieux, une manière d'ordonner, corriger, réapprendre et réaimer les gens et le monde, tels qu'ils sont et pourraient être.”Journaux de 1950 à 1962
En anglais : "Writing is a religious act: it is an ordering, a reforming, a relearning and reloving of people and the world as they are and as they might be. A shaping which does not pass away like a day of typing or a day of teaching. The writing lasts: it goes about on its own in the world. People read it: react to it as to a person, a philosophy, a religion, a flower: they like it, or do not. It helps them, or it does not. It feels to intensify living: you give more, probe, ask, look, learn, and shape this: you get more: monsters, answers, color and form, knowledge. "