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.

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

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

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 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.