Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

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

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.