I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
“You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.”
“After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.”