I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
You have the health you deserve.
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
Literary characters, like my grandmother’s apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages.
There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.
I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can’t change it and I like it.