The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

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

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

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

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

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.