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

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

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

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?