I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.