I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

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