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

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.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

That'll be the day when I die.

I'm not a top-five player yet.

The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

The evolution in each of us isn't separate from each other.

A success unshared is a failure.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.