Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.

I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn.

no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.

Life finds its meaning and answers from what life does to serve others.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.