I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

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.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.