Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?
Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
The belly is a demon. It doesn’t remember how well you treated it yesterday; it’ll cry out for more tomorrow.
Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
For me faith is the foundation and support of one’s life.
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.