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.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

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