“If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldnt say the fox killed the brains. Youd say the fox offed the goose.”

“When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.”

“Do whatever you want, as long as you say you want to be a part of Europe. And then youll get away with anything. Look, the Albanians do God knows what. They sell weapons and women, they take hostag...”

“Then why do they come?Buonarroti shrugged his shoulders.Because things are in such a bad way in their homeland, theyre ready to flee into a black hole in space, to a concentration camp, to the Sarg...”

“If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.”

“Then why do they come?”Buonarroti shrugged his shoulders.“Because things are in such a bad way in their homeland, they’re ready to flee into a black hole in space, to a concentration camp, to the S...”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Invisibility--there are things we can't see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be able to see. There are many ghosts that are lurking around and lingering...”

“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the sites structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and tha...”

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”

“There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lovers whisper, irresistiblemagic to make the sanest man go mad.”

“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”