San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

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

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.