We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

It is easy to show sinners how they sinned but God is not looking for sin pointers, He is looking for sin forgivers. Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

When the way is not clear, there is absolutely no way. "Wrong choices" are unarguably "no choices".

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Revolution is not a one time event.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.