If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.