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.

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

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

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

Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

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.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.