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.

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

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

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

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

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