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.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

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

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.