You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

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

A constant interrogation.

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.