To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.