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

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

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

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.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

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.

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