Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

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!

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.