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

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

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

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.

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

I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.