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" You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. "

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" When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. "

" This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue. "

" Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. "

" When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife. "

" The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "

" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "

" You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. "

" The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. "

" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "

" 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. "

" Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. "

" I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. "

" I was arrested three times and tortured once. "

" When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. "

" 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. "

" Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book. "

" MySpace is an addiction. "

" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "

" However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. "

" My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. "

" Today, writers want to impress other writers. "

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

" In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. "

" Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military. "

" I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. "

" About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work. "

" I am a Catholic. "