Our Goal Should Be To Achieve Joy

When I Devoted Myself To Poetry - And Poetry Is A Very Serious Medium - I Don't Think The People That Knew Me As An Individual With That Tongue-in-cheek Kind Of Humor...well, It Didn't Always Lend Itself To My Poetry. When You're Writing Poetry, It's Like Working With Gold, You Can't Waste Anything. You Have To Be Very Economical With Each Word You're Going To Select. But When You're Writing Fiction, You Can Just Go On And On; You Can Be More Playful. My Editor's Main Task Is To Cut Back, Not Ask For More.

For Things To Have Value In Man's World, They Are Given The Role Of Commodities. Among Man's Oldest And Most Constant Commodity Is Woman.

We Live In A Polarized World Of Contrived Dualisms, Dichotomies And Paradoxes: Light Vs. Dark And Good Vs. Evil. We As Mexic Amerindians/mestizas Are The Dark. We Are The Evilor At Least, The Questionable.

Human Sexuality Has Been Regulated And Shaped By Men To Serve Men's Needs.

Whatever It Is That People Find That They Want To Work On They Also Have To Remember That They Are Human Beings And They Need To Save Some Time For Themselves For Personal Growth, For Mental Health, For Their Families, Their Loved Ones So That They Will Have The Strength To Continue Doing That Work.