CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.