“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

“This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .”

“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”

“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”

“After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.”

“If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. ”

“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”