Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.