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I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.