The Truths That Seem Most Truthful, If

It Isn't True That Convicts Live Like Animals: Animals Have More Room To Move Around.

A Good Novel Is A Conjunction Of Many Factors, The Main Of Which Is Without A Doubt, Hard Work.

Prosperity Or Egalitarianism -- You Have To Choose. I Favor Freedom -- You Never Achieve Real Equality Anyway: You Simply Sacrifice Prosperity For An Illusion.

Men Do Not Live By Truth Alone; They Also Need Lies: Those That They Invent Freely, Not Those That Are Imposed On Them; Those That Appear As They Are, Not Smuggled In Beneath The Clothes Of History. Fiction Enriches Their Existence, Completes Them And, Fleetingly, Compensates Them For This Tragic Condition Which Is Our Lot: Always To Desire And Dream More Than We Can Actually Achieve.

That Is One Thing I Am Sure Of Amid My Many Uncertainties Regarding The Literary Vocation: Deep Inside, A Writer Feels That Writing Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Him, Or Could Ever Happen To Him, Because As Far As He Is Concerned, Writing Is The Best Possible Way Of Life, Never Mind The Social, Political, Or Financial Rewards Of What He Might Achieve Through It.