That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
Jose SaramagoThis must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
Jose SaramagoPerhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose SaramagoNot 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.
Jose Saramago