You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy..

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses..

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just bea….

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame..

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in….

His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever..

Women are women, and hurray for that..

And then the days came when I was alone..

I have more confidence than I ever have before..

No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously..

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff..

I'm good at picking friends..

What you see you become..

Confidence and hope do more good than physic..

Mexicans are quasi-legal..

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its ….

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular..

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-co….

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many liv….

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great..