Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.