When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.