Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.