I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

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

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

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.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.