I hate it all,’ I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can’t really change things. It’s peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.
Her eyes were large and spectacularly green. It was the green that trees are, in vivid dreams. It was the green that the sea would be, if the sea were perfect. Her
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.
Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they’re not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.
Compassion’s a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can’t fake it. I know. I’ve tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to g...
But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.
Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.
A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a...
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
— Истината е, че не съществуват добри или лоши хора — рече той. — Доброта или злина притежават само делата им. Има добри дела или лоши дела. Хората са просто хора — онова, което ги свързва с доброто и...
— Имаме една поговорка на персийски — Понякога лъвът трябва да изреве само за да напомни на коня, че го е страх.
Стиснах зъби срещу звездите. Затворих очи. Отдадох се на съня. Една от причините да копнеем за любов и да я търсим така отчаяно е, че любовта е единственият лек за самотата, и за срама, и за мъката. Н...
Има ирония в храбростта и причините да я ценим толкова. Тя е в това, че ни е по-лесно да проявим храброст заради някой друг, отколкото само заради себе си.
Žmogus, kuris niekur neskuba, niekur greitai nepatenka.
Remembered an incident from the prison. In that other world-within-a-world, back then, I moved into a new prison cell and discovered a tiny mouse there. The creature entered through a cracked air vent...
When I was arrested,’ I said, ‘I had to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. So, I’ve actually been certified sane enough to stand trial, which is more than I can say for most of the people I know, inclu...
We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.