but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
Jose SaramagoIn 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.
Jose SaramagoThe U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Jose SaramagoFor 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.
Jose SaramagoIf we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
Jose Saramago