I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

My writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.