A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."