The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.