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

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.

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

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

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends Will steal it and yell: RUN LOSER RUN!

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.