The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.