blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

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.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.