The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."

I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and then you see it pushing its way up. So in my life if another book wants to be born it's not for me to choose.