Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba «las lecturas que toda señorita debe leer y que nadie quiere que lea»....

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latin...

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals. Holly said.Not me! said Orion cheerily, I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild i...

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than t...

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years.

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing le...