Women tend to reinvest their proceeds in one another, in their communities, in their children.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

'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.

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.