Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

At home the very walls lend you strength.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.