تزداد جولي حزناً. و بالنسبة للرجل ، لا يوجد بلسم للألم أفضل من الحزن الذي يسببه لامرأة. - Milan Kundera

Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that they will one day be grownups. No, the reason is that mankind is moving more and more in the direction of infancy, and childhood is the image of the future.

هل الرواية شيء آخر سوى فخ منصوب للبطل؟

...who is the pioneer of modern journalism? Not Hemingway who wrote of his experiences in the trenches, not Orwell who spent a year of his life with the Parisian poor, not Egon Erwin Kisch the expert on Prague prostitutes, but Oriana Fallaci who in the years 1969 to 1972 published a series of interviews with the most famous politicians of the time. Those interviews were more than mere conversations; they were duels. Before the powerful politicians realized that they were fighting under unequal conditions — for she was allowed to ask questions but they were not — they were already on the floor of the ring, KO'ed.