I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.

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

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.