The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

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

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.