When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

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.

Enrich the world with your presence.

As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

I have more critics than Hitler.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.