It always hurts when you lose a secret.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.