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

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.

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.

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

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.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.

Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.