I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

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.

@She is really really so beautiful there, ' said Assad.Carl glanced at him. Apparently a woman's appearance was a particularly valuable factor in his assistant's world-view. But Carl agreed with him.

I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.