I'm releasing myself from the responsibility of claiming to know when something is good and when it isn't.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

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If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

Freedom is Letting Go.

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.