The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.