Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.