It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.