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.

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

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

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