When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

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.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

Let us embrace the coming year with a living hope for everyday life.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

My favorite pitch to hit is the hanging curveball. Usually if you just put your swing on it and it's hanging up there, there's a good chance it's going to go pretty far.

I don't think I've ever googled myself.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.