I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

I am proud to be Latino.

Being thin does not equal being happy. I promise you that. You want to lose weight, fine. But do it to be healthy, not because you want to look like the girl on the cover of some magazine.

The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

If I believed in hell, I'd definitely be going there.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.