If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.