Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself on an impossible aim.

"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.