Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Good God. Men everywhere.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

Support your libraries... or else!

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.