When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

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.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution.

"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

As long as Im getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.