Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

With every choice you create the life you’ll live

In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.