Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.