Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Dark is dark in the darkness.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Read, mediate and speak the word of God into your mind, soul and spirit.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

I've never felt as happy as I've been for the past month. And I've never loved anyone like I love you right now.

I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.