The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken

Joking with somebody's emotions makes you cold person.

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.