There Are Things Coming From Me That

Something About Giving Himself Over To A Woman Was Worse Than Having Lunch With The Devil.

When I Hear That Jennifer Lopez Is Such A Role Model For Latinas, On The One Hand I Respect Her For Her Business Sense And I Respect Her For Her Ambition. But She's In The Entertainment World. She's Done It On Her Looks And Very Specifically On Her Anatomy. Madonna Is Also Considered A Great Businesswoman And So Is Yoko Ono. I Feel If I Had A Young Daughter Right Now, I Would Feel A Little Discouraged If That Was My Daughter's Primary Role Model For Success And For Young People, For Latinas And Latinos.

Our Goal Should Be To Achieve Joy

As Time Has Gone On And We're At The End Of The 20th Century And Major Publishing Is A Big Business, Yes, Of Course We're Going To Get A Lot Of Plain, Mediocre Trash. There Are A Lot Of Writers Who Get Huge Advances For Books That Don't Go Anywhere And They Have To Burn Them Somewhere Or Throw Them Away. I Always Think About All The Poor Trees That Have Been Sacrificed.

Once Innocence--an All Too-brief State Of Being, If Such A One Exists--encounters Experience, It Is Transformed. If That Transformation Is Understood, It Becomes Knowledge. And If That Knowledge Is Employed, Then It Becomes Wisdom.