It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.
People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.