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

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.