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

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.

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.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

In America everything is fantastical.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?