When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

The evil always comes from details.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

An oppressed people will always rise.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.