“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”
“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.”
“I started to teach him how to swim only to leave him in the deep end too soon.”
“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ”
“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”
“It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.”