He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

The world is a spheroid, designed to never end. We can explore it without limits, and we will have not end.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.