Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Night was running ahead of itself.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.