There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

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?