Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

The state is not a work of art; it is a necessity.

"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized, where the dream of a world without classes is to be realized, where the dream of a world without genders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without religions is to be realized, where the dream of a world without money is to be realized, where the dream of a world without property is to be realized."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."