Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

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

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

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.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

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