When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

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.

There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.