“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasi...”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”

“Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyrann...”