Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

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.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

You are worth more than what people say or think of you.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

I'm not perfect, but I'm focused when I have a goal.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.