Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.