I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

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

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

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.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.