In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.