You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead