I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.