She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

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.

Pushing and passing to find my way to you my Lord, holding you in my prayers is feeling you and to feel you is to lose all fear

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.