The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.

There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells

He’d need the woman’s help to set things right

The battle on the cross reveals just how little Satan understands God

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.