We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.
I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.
When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.
If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.
You know, tigers are very unpredictable.
It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear that some guy next to me is writing this amazing novel, so I got to compete.
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself. '
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history