Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

You never answer a question nobody does.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

History takes time. History makes memory.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.