The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.