I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.

I paint flowers so they will not die.