The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with.

You can't be a human without seeing.

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.