I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.