Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

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

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

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.