 There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. |
| It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. |
| I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. |
| Americans have discovered fear. |
| Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. |
| The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. |
| The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. |
| Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. |
| 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. |
| Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. |
| In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. |
| Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up. |
| The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. |
| I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. |
| I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. |
| I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. |
| I am not a prophet. |
| 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? |
