But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.