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

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.

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.

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.

I cannot believe that you're still a girl. Your kisses don’t seem that innocent. They are driving me crazy.

Invest in yourself. You get OUT what you put IN.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.