All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.