I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.

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.

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

A good heart 'is worth gold.