Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

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.

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?