Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

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?