I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.