Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.