Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

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.

Does poem also walk through the valleys seeking tongues from dandelions?

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.