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

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

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

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.