There Is No Moral Authority Like That

You Can't Change A Regime On The Basis Of Compassion. There's Got To Be Something Harder.

Mostly I'm Interviewed By White People, And Identified With White Society.

If You Look At The Recent Nobel Prize Winners, One Couldn't Say That The Work Didn't Matter And The Political Commitment Did. Who Had Ever Heard Of The Egyptian Writer Naguib Mahfouz? He Is Not Politically Involved. Octavio Paz Is A Great Poet, Also Not Politically Involved. The Nobel Prize Is For Literature, For The Quality Of Work Over The Years.

Perhaps The Best Way To Write Is To Do So As If One Were Already Dead, Afraid Of No One's Reactions, Answerable To No One's Views.

The Facts Are Always Less Than What Really Happened.