People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.