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.

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.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

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

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.