If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.