I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.