I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

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