One Can't Fight With Oneself, For This

The Writer’s Job Is To Write With Rigor, With Commitment, To Defend What They Believe With All The Talent They Have. I Think That’s Part Of The Moral Obligation Of A Writer, Which Cannot Be Only Purely Artistic. I Think A Writer Has Some Kind Of Responsibility At Least To Participate In The Civic Debate. I Think Literature Is Impoverished, If It Becomes Cut From The Main Agenda Of People, Of Society, Of Life.

Maintain Democracy Or Go To Dictatorship: That Is What Is At Stake In These Elections.

Journalism Is A Way Of Voicing Opinion, Of Participating In The Political, Social, Or Cultural Debate.

Writing A Book Is A Very Lonely Business. You Are Totally Cut Off From The Rest Of The World, Submerged In Your Obsessions And Memories.

North American Society Could Not Have Reached Its State Of High Development And Modernity Had It Not Been An Open Society.