In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

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

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.