Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.