"Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist," he said with a suave smile… — Rosario Ferré

Literature is prophetic-life often lives up to fiction ("Preface: Memoir of Diamond Dust")

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. ("Sweet Diamond Dust")