I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.