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

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

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 is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

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

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