Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Yay, science.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Life insurance is a commodity.

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!"