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

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.

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 anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.