An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

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

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

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.

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

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.