Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.

We want to develop the nationWe want to develop the stateWe want to develop the society, But very few of us wants let the neighbor grow.Then how could the world will grow.

The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts.

High hopes were once formed of democracy

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining.

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.