He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

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

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?