I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.