... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.