Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Mindful Monday Humans, May your coffee kick in before reality does.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.