Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive but they are very passionate very romantic.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own but what it is I just don't know.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating even being aware of my idiocy about my weight.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

People don't really understand but having people stare and point and take pictures even if it is in a positive framework is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit you know freakish.

Freedom is poetry taking liberties with words breaking the rules of normal speech violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate or just never come back I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much and so I just went.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance like a signpost or a warning notice.

In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no like 'I'll be the rock star you be the adulating fan.'

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

First of all the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married stay married fall in love how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open more generous and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship one that had grown more slowly than I had wished but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.