Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

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.

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light.

A smile is the prettiest dance of your soul.

Santa can't die, he punish bad people. Behave well and you won't punished!

Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

Just go to [Hillary Clinton] website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.