Jose Saramago Quotations | Page 3

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.