The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.