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

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

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.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.