I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

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.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.

A gun is to your head and you have one phone call. If they answer, You die. If they don't, you're free. Who are you calling ?

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

The natural alone is permanent.

I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

I've still got the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear.