I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
“Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.”
“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.”