The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

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

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

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

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.