The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

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.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost of war. And as president and commander-in-chief, I will end these regime-change wars.

Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.