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

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

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

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

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.

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

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.