Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

All serious art attempts to make sense of the world.

"La literatura no cambia el mundo, pero puede cambiar a las personas que cambiarán el mundo."