They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.