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.

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?

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

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.

Love is God.

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Differentiation is in name and form only.