if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

There is no thermometer for wants!

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.