Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

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I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television...

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television...

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have...

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have...

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think...

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think...

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First...

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First...

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an...

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an...

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm...

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm...

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means...

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means...

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic...

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic...

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in...

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in...

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that...

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that...

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but...

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but...

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be...

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be...

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army -...

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army -...

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.