I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

History seems to be so clumsy.

I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

Life will pay any price you ask of it.