The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

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.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.