Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.