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.

You can never have too much sky.

I had a dream about you last night... you made a beard for yourself out of forty two bags of Twizzlers.

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.