Luis Alberto Urrea

“I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.”

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

“I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.”

“I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.”