True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

Write what should not be forgotten.

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing