"What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being."

"Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel…"

"Is there anything more frightening than people?"

"I used to think I could understand everything and express everything. Or almost everything. I remember when I was wri…"

"Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to p…"

"I drove to a hospital for Afghan civilians with a group of nurses – we brought presents for the children. Toys, candy…"

"I will take the liberty of saying that we missed the chance we had in the 1990s. The question was posed: what kind of…"

"There was a time... when no political idea of the 20th century was comparable to communism (or the October Revolution…"

"Twenty years ago, we bid farewell to the “Red Empire” of the Soviets with curses and tears. We can now look at that p…"

"Imitar equivale a moverse i fatigarse en el wagón de un ferrocarril: nos imajinamos realizar mucho i no hacemos más q…"