In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

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.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.