All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.