As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

The half-life of love is forever.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.