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

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

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.

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

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

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

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