If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.