In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.