Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.