I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win. - Paulo Coelho

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.