The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

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.

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

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

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

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