The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

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.