Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.