I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.