Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.