It took me sixteen years to write.

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.

Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.