I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference..

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in ….

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things g….

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that the….

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so..

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning..

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape..

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how..

I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend ….

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard an….

Barrabas came to us by the sea..

Cooking can be like foreplay..

In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would….

Everyone is born with some special talent..

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time..

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their cour….

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told….

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes..

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die..

I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dar….