I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.