...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

Americans have discovered fear.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have