That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I love you, " I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Love is a song, written in your heart.The moon is a poem in a starry night.

If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too.