Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.