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.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it.

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.