Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.