The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence