When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

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.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.