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

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

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

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

In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.