There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.