I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Down close to certain flowersall excesses are sufficiencies

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

You will never be as young as you are right now