I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently [in Mexico] than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

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