One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

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

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

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.