Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

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.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Sometimes hell has no words.

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.