It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

I love my family.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Silence is God's first language.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.