A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.