The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

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.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

I bet you don't hear no a lot.""It's a dirty word. I'm not a fan of it.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.