The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

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.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!