I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.