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.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.