Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.