No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.