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

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.

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

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

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

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

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.