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

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

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.

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

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

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