The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

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.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.