Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

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.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.