I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.