Eduardo Galeano

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. ”

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. ”

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. ”

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. ”

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear. ”

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. ”

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it. ”