I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

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

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.