For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.