The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

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.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

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