I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

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

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.