I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

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.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.