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.

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

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.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

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.