The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

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

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

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.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

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

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

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.

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

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

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.