Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.