Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.