A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Americans have discovered fear.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

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.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.