I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

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.

Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.

Be yourself, be brave.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.