What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.