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

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

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

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

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

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