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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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