“I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out thei...” — Junot Diaz Quote

“I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.”

“I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.”

“I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.”

“I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.”

“When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.”

“In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project.”