Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

God always raises deliverers from among the people

Enjoy with a care

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.