All revolutions in history have obstacles.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.