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

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.

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

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.