Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

Don't leave life until life leaves you.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

I would never disrespect anyone.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.