The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Barrabas came to us by the sea.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.