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.

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.

De los extraños que no lo parecen, líbrame Dios. Que de los conocidos me libro yo.

Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

The snake will always bite back.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.