You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

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

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).