Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace Trevelyan-Grey to Christian Grey

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.