I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

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

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.

It takes one to know one, be careful what you say of others.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

As many servants so many enemies.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.