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“I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...”
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“The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.”
Source : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
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“Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?”
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“I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.”
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“There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.”
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“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”
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“Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.”
Source : "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005. 
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“You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.”
Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.127, Macmillan
