The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.