Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

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

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

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.