Ajay Prasad Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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-I feel very much a New Yorker.

There is no point to samba if it doesn`t make you smile.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that`s why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

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.

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

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.

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

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.