No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

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

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

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

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