The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

Why? Why would you do that?” "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.