To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

In the future, designer viruses will be more popular than designer jeans.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.