It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

What is China but a people and their stories?

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were seen as antagonists, but now they complement each other. There's data that shows digital sales actually drive print sales. And even the ways in which pictures and words, text and image, interact - we're seeing these books that are very hard to categorize. All of that is very exciting to me.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.