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

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

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

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

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

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.