The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.