"Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind."

"It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed."

"And everything would be different, different."

"If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?"

"I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers we…"

"The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one r…"

"Can one move an empire as if it were a house?"

"Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship."

"I became familiar with literature before I knew freedom, so that it was literature that led me to liberty, not the ot…"