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

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 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.

Each day is a little bit of history

The key to your success in the world is to discover the field of your gift

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.