You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

To walk across the street is a risk.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.