For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nur….

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so..

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the f….

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours..

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans..

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught..

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political a….

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story..

Writing is a constant exercise in longing..

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even ….

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent..

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to oth….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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….