I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

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

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.