I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

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.

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life.

She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it

Resentment’s appetite is never fulfilled.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

You have to make people understand that things cost something. Otherwise it seems like they have no value. I can't just be giving away rabbits. No. It costs five bucks, so make it work for you.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.