I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

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.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.