Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

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

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.