I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.