The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

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.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.