In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

Headline writing is an art form.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.