Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.In my garden, I've only got weeds. I think they're a nuisance.

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.

When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.