The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

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.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

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.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.