What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.