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.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.