My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.