Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

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.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.