You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.

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.

No, " said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.