The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

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