But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.