In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.