Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.