For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again