It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.

The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

I can feel happiness through dancing.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.