In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.