Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.