Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

I came up under [Ronald] Reagan and under [George] Bush, and what are we to do now? We are here to fight. People can run off all they want. But for me, [Donald] Trump is already in the Dominican Republic.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.