In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining
“I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.”
“In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.”