Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.