I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.