If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.