Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.