Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Home is the place where you feel happy.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.