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

- Luis Alberto Urrea

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

- Luis Alberto Urrea

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

- Luis Alberto Urrea

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

- Luis Alberto Urrea

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

- Luis Alberto Urrea

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

- Luis Alberto Urrea

Words are the only bread we can really share.

- Luis Alberto Urrea

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 t…

- Luis Alberto Urrea