The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

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

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.