In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.