For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.