In literature, you know only what you imagine

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

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.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.