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

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

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

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.

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

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