The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Do work that matters. Vale la pena

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.