- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a product of a fragmented world.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
- My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No one could correct my Spanish. And I think that I retreated to books as a way, you know, to be, like, masterful in a language that was really difficult for me for many years.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.
- Drown
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- Nov 07, 2020