A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.