I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.