I was hired as a penciler..

I have never voted in my life..

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

God is always at work around you..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

Spin-offs were never really my thing..

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating..

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

No one can be cured of being who they are..

The great appear great to us..

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row..

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family..

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team..