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.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

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.

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