To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.