A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

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

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

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.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

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

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?