I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual v...
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of...
A pearl is worthless as long as it is in its shell.
Live and learn, die and forget it all.
When the white man wins, it is a battle.
A good guitarist will play on one string.
None of us knows who we are.
Talk helps shape one's thoughts.
To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.
Work is part of school.
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
American literature has always been immigrant.
I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
