Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. One must die for the other to survive.

I've always been drawn to characters who are complex and flawed, because that's what makes them human.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Man is condemned to be free.