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.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

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.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.