The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.