I'm not afraid to say what I'm afraid of. Does that make me fearless?

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.