We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.