For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.

A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.