It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.