Estaba feliz de haber perdido todo.

Щастието не е бляскаво и шумно като удоволствието или радостта. То е тихо, кротко и нежно, вътрешно състояние на задоволство, което започва, когато обикнеш себе си.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.