Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

A best friend is someone with whom you can sit on the porch, without a word, and then walk away with the feeling that it was the best conversation that ever had in your life. I would like to see next to me was the man in whose presence my heart beat would be evenly and uniformly, the man next to whom I would be calm, because I was not afraid to be the next day to lose him. And the time would have flowed more slowly, and we could just keep quiet, knowing that to talk with us there is still a whole life. Only one thing makes a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.