Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
Junot DiazIf you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
Junot DiazWhat we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
Junot DiazI just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time Iām with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
Junot Diaz