I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.