"I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments."

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here.

Literature is the best weapon against intolerance and fanaticism.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"