When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.