Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
Flowers of sin, like some black sun, Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat.
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.
Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
