I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

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.

Those who amass wealth through wrong means not only become lesser humans in the course of amassing, but also essentially underscore that their next generations become even worse human beings.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

Mental energy from within keeps me higher, Than anything rolled and set on fire

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.