All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

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.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Your heart doesn’t like shady strategies.

Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Show me good, i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse...

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is?