Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.