Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.

Wake up! You’re a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.

And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.