Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

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.

He wounds but he heals.

We need more people in this world, energised by chasing a quest or a goal and that is what will energise the world.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we're making the haystack bigger.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.