In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.