Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Write what should not be forgotten.