I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

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.

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

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.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Jesus does not demand of us higher standards, he offers us himself. Jesus does not require of us super-human ability or commitments. He gives us his ability and grace.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

I would love to be in Kansas.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?