Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.