Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

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?

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

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

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.