Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

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.

Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.