"She felt that she had seen beneath the mask of the world, and she could not quite believe in that mask again."

"Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already."

"You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes …"

"You are wrong, Rabbi. You did not kill your daughter. And it does not matter now if you could have done something to …"

"“You can’t ask questions like that,” André said. “The unconscious has its own logic.” But he looked a little puzzled,…"

"They passed a closed police station. Someone had written on the wall, “It is forbidden to forbid.”"

"Suddenly he didn’t care if the revolution were lost or won, only that it be over."

"Movies should be silent, like dreams."

"“A novel?” André laughed. “The novel’s dead—don’t waste your time. The novel takes a small—oh, infinitely small—cut-a…"

"A magician’s business is with words. He may use other things to help him along—amulets and so forth—but it is within …"