Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.