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" I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom. "

" My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move. "

" I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one. "

" When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. "

" You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. "

" Music for me, it demands full concentration. "

" We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. "

" Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. "

" Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. "

" What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. "

" When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. "

" It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate. "

" I'm not a person that socializes very well. "

" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "

" Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. "

" People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. "

" In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation. "

" I never say I am a guru. "

" I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. "

" Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "

" Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that. "

" I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "

" Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. "

" I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk. "

" Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. "

" Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. "

" Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. "

" I don't try to control my days. "