A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

And everything would be different, different.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

Can a country's people be better than its planes?

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

Write what you know.

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they’re drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.

You love me?''Baby, you were made for me.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.

I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.