I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

My Dearest Julianne, Thank you for your immeasurable gift.The only thing I have of value is my heart.It’s yours, Gabriel.

Work is meant to create a desired outcome. If your work is not creating the dream, what are you working on?

When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to bid to your voice

For me, fashion begins in New York.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!