Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Something happens because something happens because something happens

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?