If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

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.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.

God is man idealized.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.