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.

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

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.