“Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a c...” — Ruth Ozeki Quote

“Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being bullied for being Asian.”

“There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.”

“It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.”

“I have the idea of cool, but at the end of the day, I'm a pushover.”

“I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.”

“These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'”