The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

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 learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.