Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.