“A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.”

“Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.”

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”

“We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”

“The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.”

“Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be illusion. Your certainties are proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?'Humanity'. Normally one uses it as a synonym for compassion; charity; decency; integrity. 'He is such a human person.' Must one now go in search of an entirely different set of synonyms: cruelty; exploitation; unscrupulousness; or whatever?”