Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.
I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that. '
I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do exist. We have to show real life on TV and film. And we don't. We only see maybe 5 percent of what real people are really like. I mean, movies set in Los Angeles that don't have any minorities in them - how does that happen?
As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat. , Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet. ]