Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.
Jose SaramagoI believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
Jose SaramagoPerhaps 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.
Jose SaramagoI consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.
Jose Saramago