Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

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.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.