"The writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, and to reveal the hidden."

We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.

Art is a mirror of society, but it can also be a hammer with which to shape it.

The duty of literature is to disturb, to question, to undermine certainties.