There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

Memory. My poison, my food.

Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.