Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

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