Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.