Security without freedom means slavery.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.