A person doesn't mourn forever.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.