I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

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.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.