But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!