I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.