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

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

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

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

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.

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