Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.