I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.