Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.