There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.