It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.