The Real Malady Is Fear Of Life,

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

It Is Simply Not Part Of My Culture To Preserve Notes. I Have Never Heard Of A Writer Preserving His Early Drafts.

Home Is Not Where You Were Born; Home Is Where All Your Attempts To Escape Cease.

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.

There Are No Heroes In Most Of My Stories. I Look At Our Society With A Critical Eye And Find Nothing Extraordinary In The People I See.