Love heals scars love left

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Comedy has been so good to me.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.