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

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.

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.

You can never have too much sky.

Sometimes you risk all for a chance at your heart's desire...

In order for love to be love, it must be chosen freely.

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Alec slid his hand from Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.