Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

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.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

When adults wage war, children perish.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

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