“When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I ...” — Luis Alberto Urrea Quote

“When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.”

“Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.”

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

“I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.”

“If I'm called up by any England team, I'm willing to go. I'm not going to pull out of any England team. Ask any young kid who wants to play for their national team, and everyone's the same. We're all dying to do it.”

“I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.”