Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

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.

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.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Don't give pain to others.

​Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

A little more than kin, and less than kind.