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.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.