Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

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.