We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

If someone deprives you of your history deprives you of your future

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.