Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

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