"Escribir es una forma de terapia. A veces me pregunto cómo se las arreglan los que no escriben, los que no componen música o pintan, para escapar de la locura, de la melancolía, del terror pánico inherente a la condición humana."
The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy have created a situation in which the major powers are no longer willing to go to war with one another.
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life.