Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

All that God does is for the good.

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")

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.