When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
From Eduardo Galeano
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
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