“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.”

“I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“He whistles. Que viva Colombia. Hands you back the Book. You really should write the cheater's guide to love. You think? I do. It takes a while. You see the tall girl. You go to more doctors...”