“Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours...” — Junot Díaz Quote

“Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.”

“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.”

“I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.”

“Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.”

“Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.”

“My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.”

“Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison”

“So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.”

“The worst thing that humans do to themselves is stick with a past moment and wait for the same moment to repeat to fix it in a better way.”

“The Universe is very, very big.”

“December is... by Stewart Stafford”

“I think it is really important to not only take advantage of these tools that you have at your disposal but also to really take the time to develop ideas within yourself and think about what you want to animate, and then you can use these tools to create what you want to create.”