I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.