Luis Alberto Urrea quotes:

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.