The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.