If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe