Writing is like training to be an athlete. There is a lot of training and work that nobody sees in order to compete. The writer needs to write every … - Isabel Allende

But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else. Whores are the worst, patron, believe me. They throw their lives away working for some pimp, smile when he beats them, feel proud when he's well dressed, with his gold teeth and rings on his fingers, and when he goes off and takes up with a woman half their age they forgive him everything because 'he's a man.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

We see stuff on TV that doesn’t look real. It looks like a video game. We don’t see the collateral damage.