I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I'm blessed to have a little bit of success in football.