There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Beavers give a dam

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life.

It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

We will finish the race.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.