No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

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

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire