The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

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

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.