"Confessions, apologies: why this thirst for abasement? A hush falls. They circle around him like hunters who have cor…"

"This is the place where bodies are their own signs."

"He did not seem to have a belief, or did not seem to have a belief regarding help."

"It would cost little to march them out into the desert . . . to have them dig, with their last strength, a pit large …"

"But why should people with nowhere to go run away from the nice life we've got here?"

"It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people we…"

"It is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and …"

"Truly the world should belong to singers and dancers."

"Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and su…"

"I will leave behind my terraces and walls," he said. "They will be enough. They will be more than enough.”"