Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships. - Nadine Gordimer

من أكثر الأمور غرابة، أن تجد نفسك كل ليلة أمام بحر من العتمة.

There can be no global culture while there are inhabitants deprived of the ability to read, to have access to the powers of the imagination released through the written word, through literature; deprived of the intellectual and spiritual bounty of libraries.

In countries like Czechoslovakia, like South Africa, like Argentina, guilt by association is a fact and therefore the friendships you form can be a political act. This circumstance, way of life, is very complex. People think that a political act is signing a declaration or planting a bomb, but there are all kinds of political acts in countries where there is a great political struggle going on.