I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

You have the health you deserve.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.