If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

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.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.