A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.