College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.