No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice..

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it..

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I….

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work..

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy..

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend..

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it..

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again..

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

The wisest of the wise may err..

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth..

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is..

Will loved to gallop..

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it..

Africa is on the rise..

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..