Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.