Everyone in his place and a place for everyone..

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique..

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. ….

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion..

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make eve….

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them..

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities..

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone..

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there….

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances i….

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myse….

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction,….

Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just acce….

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes..

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to….

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so s….

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young popula….

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity..

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy..

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so import….

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals..