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

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

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

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

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

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.