It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

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

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.