Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.