The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

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

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.