An oppressed people will always rise.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.