Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.