We Must Mistrust Utopias: They Usually End

No Democracy Is Born Perfect, And None Ever Gets To Be Perfect. Yet Democracy Is Superior To Authoritarian And Totalitarian Regimes Because, Unlike Them, Democracy Is Perfectible.

In My Case, Literature Is A Kind Of Revenge. It's Something That Gives Me What Real Life Can't Give Me - All The Adventures, All The Suffering. All The Experiences I Can Only Live In The Imagination, Literature Completes.

Literature Is A Form Of Permanent Insurrection. Its Mission Is To Arouse, To Disturb, To Alarm, To Keep Men In A Constant State Of Dissatisfaction With Themselves.

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.