I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

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.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

You have to stick to your goals of progress.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.