Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

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

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

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.