A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

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.

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing