You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

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.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

I love you and believe in you. If you want my ear/voice — e-mail.

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.