Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

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

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

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

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.