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

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.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

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

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

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.