I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Who can take a single step with his head?

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.