Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

I'm really into the rights of immigrants, the rights of the working poor. I'm one of those little activist types. I probably would have just gone to law school. And the scary part is that I was one of those kids who always tested really well. You put a test in front of me, and I would have been like do-do-do-do-do. I probably would have been some community lawyer somewhere - if anything, that's probably what I would have been doing.

I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.