What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

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

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.