Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

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

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.