She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

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

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

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

It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.