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.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.