I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!

I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."