Nothing was made in Trinidad.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.