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

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

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

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

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.