I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

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.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

But a tedious way to a grievous end(745)

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.