For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.