"The only way to progress is by stumbling, falling, and getting up, time and again. Error will always be there because…"

"We live in the civilization of the spectacle and the intellectuals and writers who are the most popular are almost ne…"

"Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by igno…"

"[L]iberalism is above all an attitude toward life and society based on tolerance and respect, a love for culture, a d…"

"At the dawn of human society there were no individuals, only the tribe, the closed society. The sovereign individual …"

"In May 1968 in France there was student unrest at the University of Nanterre, which then spread to the Sorbonne, to t…"

"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing i…"

"Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us…"

"[I]t is normal for outsiders to have a better understanding of what is happening inside dictatorial regimes, because …"

"[C]ommon sense is the most valuable of political virtues."