The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.