"When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things."

"I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me."

"But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money."

"I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city."

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."