Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.