I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.

We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries, And It’s better to call for independence.

General Taylor never surrenders.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

What are you thinking about? What you focus on right now will tend to come into your life a little later. Here's your reminder to change your mind.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

Play is your route to mastery.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.