Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

Canadians, do not vomit on me!