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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.

The fact that that’s the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It’s so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I feel as if I’m clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously – and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don’t; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

I ain’t no movie star, man. I’m a booty star.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.