You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small ste...
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.