I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

• Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
• We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
• Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
• Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
• I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
• Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
• I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
• I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
• The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.