Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.

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.

I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

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

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.