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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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