Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

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

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.

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