There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

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.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

A little hope and love now and thenWise and beautiful, more than often.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.