I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

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

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

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