You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.