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.

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")

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

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.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.