What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

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.

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.

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

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

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

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