When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

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.

His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her.

One lie can tarnish a thousand truths.

I'm alive and I'm going to keep standing up for what I believe in. Once you get to that point, boy you are dangerous.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.