There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.