I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. – Jose Saramago
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. – Jose Saramago
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. – Jose Saramago
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, theres also complete stillness; theres no mental labeling of sense perceptions. Theres simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and thats beautiful. – Eckhart Tolle