There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?