I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live through each day making only the noblest decisions.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

I've never let the criticism deter me.