The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.