All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.