[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.