I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.