“For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and h...” — Junot Diaz Quote

“For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.”

“My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.”

“I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.”

“When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.”

“It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me.”

“I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.”