I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.