It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.