How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.

Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes, but only your need for someone to blame.

When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.