We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.