There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else, if not herein English.

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that Idon't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female...

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.