If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

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

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.