The Real Malady Is Fear Of Life,

If The Urge To Write Should Ever Leave Me, I Want That Day To Be My Last.

Winning Nobel Imposed On Me A Lifestyle To Which I Am Not Used And Which I Would Not Have Preferred.

I Defend Both The Freedom Of Expression And Society's Right To Counter It. I Must Pay The Price For Differing. It Is The Natural Way Of Things.

Literature Should Be More Revolutionary Than Revolutions Themselves; Writers Must Find The Means To Continue To Be Critical Of The Negative Elements In The Sociopolitical Reality.

I Was A Government Employee In The Morning And A Writer In The Evening.