Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.