Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

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.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person.

Try not to waste today by continuing on the same chapter you were complaining about yesterday.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?