Allison

“Better to be a legend than a star.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“But at the same time, I’m guilty, too. Guilty of playing this role. Letting it define me. Internalizing the role so completely that I’ve lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins. And letting that define how I see other people. I’m as guilty of it as anyone. Fetishizing Black people and their coolness. Romanticizing White women. Wishing I were a White man. Putting myself into this category.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“There are a few years where you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown