You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

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

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.