I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.

Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.