"When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read."

“We gonna touch the sky”

“In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.”

“Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

“Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.”

“From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.”

“I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”

“Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43

“Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.”