Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

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.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.