If You're Going To Be

If You're Going To Be A Myth Or Want To Be A Myth, You'd Better Die Young.

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.

There Is No Point To Samba If It Doesn't Make You Smile.

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.