“The evil always comes from details.”

“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”

“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.”

“New ideas are always resisted.”

“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”

“There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.”

“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.”