Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

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.

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.

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.

You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.

I'm yours. If you'll have me, I'm yours

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.

I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined up. I don't know what I'm looking for.